Pit & Quarry, June 2014
All aboard A Missouri producer makes a major investment incorporating a rail line into its quarry and transportation system M issouri was a hotbed of rock formation several hundred million or a few billion years ago Magma periodically flowed beneath and above the surface of the earth cooling and hardening Today the southern part of the Show Me State contains vast tonnage of Precambrian granite and trap rock to show for its molten past Trap Rock and Granite Quarries LLCs reserves feature Missouri red granite and trap rock deposits This year the company will begin to tap the rich groundswell with a state of theart quarry loadout operation The plan Trap Rock and Granite Quarries owns 3200 acres in southern Illinois and southeast Missouri with more than 1100 of those acres situated 85 miles south of St Louis near Iron Mountain Mo The 1100 acre parcel was purchased three years ago after geologists concluded it contains an estimated 1 billion tons of granite and trap rock But just as enticing to the company was what lay adjacent to the property a main line of the Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific has about 1400 miles of track in Missouri and some of those tracks skirt the new quarry Sensing an opportunity because of the tracks proximity Trap Rock and Granite Quarries executives began to incorporate the Union Pacific main line into the companys quarry and transportation system This has been a project in the making for two years says Gary Perrey the companys aggregate operations manager We had to get all TRANSPORTATION BY GILES LAMBERTSON Trap Rock and Granite Quarries LLCs reserves feature Missouri red granite and trap rock deposits 24 PIT QUARRY June 2014 www pitandquarry com
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